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Skinner Mill Place, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the West Tehama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 96080. It lies near Panther Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Cold Fork quadrangle.

Skinner Mill Place within Tehama County

Then and now

1890 to 1998

The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Skinner Mill Place, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet of Skinner Mill Place, surveyed 1890

Compare 1890 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Skinner Mill Place between 1995 and 2020, burning about 60,618 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresTehama-Glenn UnitROCKY FIRE
5 September 2019Natural8,838 acresNorthern California DistrictRED BANK
5 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use27 acresTehama-Glenn UnitSTEWERT
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNorthern California DistrictLOOP
5 August 2006Naturalunder an acreKlamath National ForestMILL LAKE
28 August 1999Natural102 acresTehama-Glenn UnitDEXTER
18 August 2020Natural51,577 acresShasta-Trinity National ForestSHF ELKHORN
30 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresNorthern Region AdministrationBUCKHORN (CA-SHF-5849)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tehama County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Skinner Mill Place: 4 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kestner and ThompsonCopperOccurrenceUnderground
PerineCopperOccurrence
Uncle SamCopperOccurrenceUnderground
Uncle SamCopperUnknown
VerdeCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Tehama County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Heitman Place (historical)0.1 miles22
Pettyjohn Place1.9 miles22
Cold Fork1.9 miles22
Haven Place2.3 miles22
Shackleford Place2.6 miles22
Hammer Place2.7 miles21
Bayles Place3.3 miles22
Mary Ellen Place4.5 miles21

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q54888570The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1656294. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.